St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-06-16
THE CAR BUILDERS.
The Rules Revised---The Janney
Type of Brake Favored.

type Oh hraAe FaVOfeQ.
The master car builders got right
down to business yesterday morning.
The nominating committee presented its
report, which was laid over to make
way for the special order. The nomi-
nees are as follows:
President, William McWood, of the Grand
Trunk Montreal; first vice president. j. ".
Cloud, New York, Lake Erie & Western, Buff
falo, n. Y: second vice president, d. w.
Grieves, Baltimore & Ohio, Baltimore; third
vice president. John S. Lentz, Pennsylvania
& New York Canal and Railroad company,
Packerton. \. Y: treasurer, John Kirby, Lake
Shore 4 Michigan Southern. Cleveland. Ex-
ecutiye committee: Joseph Wood, Pennsyl-
Wade, Richmond &; Danville. Richmond,
Va; Il. Bissell, New York Central Sleeping
Car company, Buffalo, n. Y.
The special order was the revision of
the code OF rules governing the condi-
ton of and repairs to freight cars for
the interchange of traffic. The aSSocia-
ton went to work in solid earnest, and
for over two hours WreStled with the
rules. the amendments to the rules be-
ing, so far as outsiders could see, of
minor Importance. The masters, how
ever, gave close attention to the work
in hand, and the air was filled with the
peculiar vernacular of the car builders
terms which. to the reporter, were as
Greek to the SchoOlboy, were banded
about, the delegates defending their
amendments with draughtS from bust
ness experience. They talked about
chill wheels and slid fats,
and flangeS with fat, vertical
surfaces, and shelled out circular prices,
and Clipped rims, and raised centers,
and sharp and thin fiaugeS and a host of
M tn hJJll
but unknown to the outer world They
considered the condition of brakes, and
the repairs of wood work; they got
along without much difficulty until the
rule for the settlement prices for new
cars and trucks was reached. an
amendment to advance the whole sched-
rule of prices 10 per cent. called forth
rather sharp debate. The advance was
favored. as rule, by the representa-
tives of the smaller roads, and opposed
by the master car builders of the great
corporations. In voting, each delegate
was entitled to cast one vote for every
thousand cars owned by his road, and in
this way the motion to increase the price
was defeated. A motion for an increase
of per cent. on the present list also
failed, and the matter was referred to a
special committee who reported at the
afternoon session. making additions of
from s. TO $50 to the prices of the diff
ferent kinds of cars. This report was
adopted. An important amendment
authorizes the appointment by the
executive committee of an arbitration
committee, to be composed of three
shall be referred all disputes or misun-
derstanding under the rules. 1t
was after o'clock when the
revision of the rules was com
pleted. 1t was awfully hot in the hall,
and not even the fans SO kindly dis
.tributed by some enterpriSing adver-
tiSer could keep the car men cool. The
question of couplerS coming up, the
executive committee recommended that
the Janney coupler be adopted as the
type os automatic coupler to be adopted
by the association, and requested that the
question be balloted upon by letter after
Mr.. Wall made an extended report of
the Burlington experiments with auto
matte cOuplerS last year. During the
gentleman's remarks the hot and weary
delegates did their best to keep inter
ested in the speech, which was extended
into general review of couplerS. rec
Ommending close coupling, and from
these to a discussion of various brakes.
Mr.. Miller objected to the adoption
OF the Janney type because 1t
is not permitted in Michigan
and New York. He considered
the Cowell type as good as the Janney
and wanted it added to the committees
recommendation. A letter from George
G. Watrous, master car builder of the
Detroit. Lansing & Northern road,
strongly commended the Cowell coup
Ter. i. S. Coffin, member of the Iowa
railroad commission, was called upon,
and said the only point of view from
which he considered the car coupler,
was sal ETY. to the train men. The re-
port of the committee gave him great
satisfaction. because it indicates that
this body has arrived at point where
you have decided to speak the word that
shall do away with the old pin and link
coupler. plead for the boys who do
not come in here and plead for them
selves. The gentleman grew eloquent
as he considered the danger to which
brakemen are subjected, and the
strength or his one argument would
seem to have been enough to overweight
all opposition. Mr.. Coffin was enthuSi-
asticalIy applauded. The recommended
ton of the committee was adopted.